The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday- January 22, 1990 - Page 5 ICers' four build morn by David Hyman Daily Hockey Writer , - ' ± :. points help ientum BIG RAPIDS - When trailing after one period this season, the Michigan hockey team has been unsuccessful in making comebacks. Before Saturday evening, it had compiled an 0-8-1 record when falling behind after the first 20 minutes. Uncharacteristically, however, the Wolverines outscored Ferris St., 5-1, in the final 15:54 Saturday to win 6-5 in overtime, completing a weekend ,*'sweep over the Bulldogs. "Our team came back all night," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. We hung in there and our team learned they can come from behind, especially on the road." Senior Michigan defenseman Todd Copeland agreed: "We're confident A we can win after falling behind, but we haven't shown it so far this year in the third (period). Now we have." But maybe more importantly for the Wolverines at this juncture in the season was returning to Ann Arbor with four points. Michigan has won only one game against the three teams ahead of it in the conference, de- feating only Bowling Green, 4-1, back in October. So, for the Wolverines to remain in fourth place and retain the final home playoff spot, they must dominate the teams below them. Michigan will face Ohio St. and Western Michigan in the next two weekends and increasing the current two-game winning streak to six would strengthen the Wolverines' hold on fourth. "It's a big win for us," Berenson said after Saturday's come-from-behind overtime victory. "It makes for a successful weekend and it is the first time we swept someone on the road since beating Illinois-Chicago (October 20- 21)." The two wins this weekend also represent the first two Michigan victories of the '90s after the Wolverines had lost three of four, with one * 'tie, since defeating Michigan St. in the Great Lakes Invitational final December 30. Before this series began, Michigan players and coaches would not be satisfied without a sweep. "It would be disappointing not to win both games," Berenson said before departing to Big Rapids. Michigan right winger Brad Turner agreed: "This is where we're going to have to start building up the momentum. It's time to start getting some wins together.", And getting some wins together at this point in the season will help propel the Wolverines in the playoffs and hopefully into the NCAAs. "We felt we should win and we hadn't won in three weeks," Berenson said after Friday's game. "We needed a win to get us back on track," Michigan goalie Warren Sharples added Friday night. "We have to beat the teams below us to try and catch the teams ahead of us." Senior center Mike Moes agreed: "It was a must-win for us as we need some points right now." Now with two wins together, hopefully the Wolverines will continue playing like it did this weekend, in hopes of reaping big rewards in the final two months. But the Wolverines must continue to play each and every of the final eight conference games as a 'must-win' situation. If every game is looked upon as a 'must-win' like this past weekend series with Ferris St., Mich- igan could easily win eight of its final ten league games. "It's nice to win a pair, but we expected to beat Ferris and I don't think we would have been happy without a sweep," Copeland said after Saturday's game. Besides Copeland's confidence in the team, Berenson saw something else that pleased him: "The team played with a lot of intensity and stayed with it to the end." If only this same feeling of intensity and confidence can carry over to tie final four series, Michigan could wind up in third place when the season ends. BULLDOGS Continued from page 1 offensive outburst of its own. Dan Stiver began the comeback when he knocked in a rebound on a power play. Stone also scored with three minutes remaining in the second period. Moes scored his first goal of the night six minutes into the third period to tie the score at four and complete the first comeback. "We ended up taking some unnecessary penalties by some upper classmen and that took away the momentum we had," Ferris coach John Perpich said. "It's a matter of keeping up the momentum." Taylor scored his third goal of the night three minutes later before Kramer came through again to tie the score and send the game into overtime. Friday night's contest was not the thriller Saturday's turned out to be. Michigan jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead on goals by David Roberts, Brad Turner, Dan Stiver and Don Stone. "Last week we let in way too many goals," defenseman Alex Roberts said. "This is a good oppor- tunity to get back on track." More importantly, Michigan was playing its first solid defense in weeks. "(Defense) starts in goal," Berenson said. "And Sharples played better." Sharples echoed Berenson's feel- ings: "Our defense did a good job of tying up their people and a good job of defensive zone coverage when we had to." After Stone's goal at the 2:10 mark of the second period put the Wolverines up 4-0, Mike Williams replaced Marc Felicio in goal for Ferris State. "We started very poorly and Michigan jumped right on it," Per- pich said. "Michigan took advantage of our tentative start." Rod Taylor finally broke through for the Bulldogs at the 11:07 mark of the second period with a power play goal. And only 33 seconds into the last frame, Mike Jorgensen pulled Ferris to within 4-2. Four minutes later, Ferris received its only real chance to get itself back into the game, as Williams held Michigan at bay and Todd Copeland was called or slashing. But Michigan killed the penalty and Ted Kramer scored his first goal of the weekend to ice the win. "We needed a win to get us on track," Sharples said. "We have to beat teams below us to catch teams ahead of us." WISCONSIN continued from page 1 With Michigan trailing by 12 at 11:59 of the second half, Northwest- ern rolled off 14 straight points, holding the Wolverines scoreless for a three-minute stretch that, for all in- tensive purposes, put the game away. "This is the worst defensive per- formance I've ever had by a Michi- gan team," said a deflated Van- DeWege. "We might as well have just put five orange cones out there so (Northwestern) could maneuver around and run their plays." Northwestern shot an incredible 70 percent in the second half, and re- ceived another outstanding perfor- mance from sophomore guard Nancy Kennelly. Kennelly, ranked fifth in the nation in assists per game (7.3 apg) and first in the Big Ten (7.7 apg), notched 11 assists and grabbed 10 rebounds. 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